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sensing ‘Air-mouse’, multi-touch trackpad technology, plus 39 developer-programable buttons and legacy IR hardware support (to control IR-only products). “One area we have worked hard to really further optimize is the voice input control,” explains Nordic Semiconductor Product Marketing Manager, John Leonard. “This includes developing an even more robust wireless link for wireless audio data, and 20 percent better current consumption compared to Nordic’s previous nRFready Smart Remote 2 solution.” Leonard claims that developing advanced Bluetooth Smart remotes using the nRFready Smart Remote 3 reference design has been made “check-box-clicking” easy thanks to a newly-developed configuration Wizard that works in the Keil development environment. “TheWizard and underlying software is built in a modular format that has refined the developer element down to a list of check-boxes that allow every parameter of the remote to be configured and fine-tuned,” explains Leonard. “This includes large chunk function decisions such as whether to employ a track-pad or motion sensing, down to specifying the number of milliseconds it takes for the remote to wake-up from sleep mode.” First of Four New NFC Solutions Released to Quicken Design Process and Ensure Robust Operation in Challenging Environments With the flagship solution, PN5180, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), co-inventor of Near Field Communication (NFC), announced the beginning of a new era in the evolution of NFC to bring intuitive proximity technology everywhere. PN5180 is an advanced, multi-protocol (ISO/IEC 15693, Felica™, MIFARE ® and ISO/IEC 14443A/B) NFC frontend that delivers more efficient, robust, and reliable operation, even in harsh environments. Building on the success of the PN512, PN5180 delivers four times more output power and is designed to enable state-of-the- NXP Announces Beginning of New Era in NFC Technology

the nRFready Smart Remote 3

In operation, the nRFready Smart Remote 3 reference design employs Nordic’s nRF51822 System-on-Chip (SoC) and so is designed to work as an add-on for Nordic’s existing nRF51 Development Kit (DK). An nRF51 DK is required to use this reference design but is not included and must be purchased separately. The add-on contains all the external sensor devices that can interface with the nRF51 DK. art readers for contactless payment without the need of an additional booster. “NFC moves increasingly into new and more demanding applications, now transportation terminals need to support EMV payment schemes and have to interact with new payment or transit form factors like NFC-enabled phones, wearables and even rings. The requirements for performance, reliability and interoperability therefore expand,” said Pradip Mistry, vice president of research and development at Cubic Transportation Systems. “NXP succeeds to bring NFC to the next level in technology with the PN5180 and its new features like Dynamic Power Control and Adaptive Wave Shaping which enables us to deliver an unmatched user experience to our end customers.”

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